daily java

Daily Java: “Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs,
not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile.
So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.
But days are coming," declares the LORD,
"when I will send men who pour from jars, and they will pour her out;
they will empty her jars and smash her jugs. (Jeremiah 48:11-12)

People put things off until they get bad. The yard isn’t mowed until finally, you have to hire someone with a heavy duty mower to come mow it. You gain enough weight that you feel you have to have surgery to get rid of it. The house gets in such disorder that you have to hire a professional house cleaner to fix it. The car has so many problems, you have to pay a mechanic a fat lot of money to fix it all.

It is in most people’s nature to procrastinate. And in some things it isn’t bad necessarily.

But when things are put off in your relationship with the Lord, there comes a day when it will be too late. God cannot and will not wait forever. Sooner or later the end will come.

The country Moab had done this. They had put off a relationship with God for a long time and finally it was getting tot he point that they were so corrupt and rebellious that God was not going to put up with it any longer.

He said that their wine – symbolic of their life – had been allowed to sit until the dregs had contaminated the whole jar. Evidently, if wine was not moved occasionally, it would turn bad. Theirs had turned bad.

God said that he was sending people whose job it was to pour out jars. People like our trash collectors who are used to lifting heavy objects and emptying them. For them, the lifting of a full trash can is nothing more than something they do a hundred times a day.

These men will come and pick up those full jars of contaminated wine and pour them on the ground. Then they will smash the contaminated jars so they will not ruin any more wine.

Harsh picture. But they had refused God until it was too late.

Every country in the history of mankind that was great at one time has fallen. Sure there are some that are a shadow of what they once were – England, France, Spain, little Portugal. Portugal once ruled the seas. But like all countries that become corrupt, they sooner or later fell.

They got to thinking of themselves as being great and fell. Their wine was poured out and their jars broken.

All countries come to an end. As much as we may not like it, so will America one day. I can already see the decay of our culture just in walking down the mall and listening to our young people talk. The coarseness of our movies and our music has taken its toll, and I fear our wine is becoming contaminated.

You cannot last long when your base becomes corrupt. It will not be long until someone who feels it their job to pour out jars will come and pour out our jars.

O God, save us.